Cursor does not pop up in Direct Color Editor
The cursor (which indicates the possibility of changing saturation and hue by dragging vertically and horizontally) does not pop up in Direct Color Editor after clicking on the color which I want to adjust.
Actually, I see it for about a second if I press the touchpad hard on my Macbook Pro, and then, it disappears.
Is it a bug?
If it is not, how can I overcome this issue?
And another question, related to Direct Color Editor. How can make an adjustment from a current color to a pure white color?
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Walter,
It's the same with me. It's not a bug, but a feature, that you can easily understand as, after you have picked the colour, you adjust hue and saturation by dragging the mouse (or the trackpad) and you don't need any longer, accordingly, the initial position. This initial position is not expected to change while dragging the mouse/trackpad.
A pure white colour is 255/255/255. You can obtain it easily by selecting it with a colour masked layer, for instance, and push the exposure cursor to its maximum. If necessary, you can make it in several identical steps as the exposure cursor is limited to +4.
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Robert, thanks for the detailed response.
I have a Macbook Pro, with a trackpad. I do not have an external mouse (I just don't need it for achieving my goals).
I tried what you suggested. Namely, I clicked on the color which I want to adjust (in my case it was a pure black background, which I want to turn into a pure white background). The product in the middle of my image is of yellow color.
While in Direct Color Editor, when I am clicking on the pure BLACK background, for some reason the color range changes from "multi-color" to "yellow range. And moving trackpad up-down, left-right does not change anything.
I just can't comprehend why it is happening. I would really appreciate your advice on the issue.
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Walter,
I suspect your black is not a pure black and Capture One reads it as a very dark yellow, but maybe I'm wrong. What RGB values do you read at the top of your picture ? Is it 0, 0, 0 ?
Regarding the Direct Colour Editor, you can change only hue and saturation when moving through the trackpad. And this won't give you the same result as a strong exposure change, using the colour masked layer for instance, even if I doubt the selection of the colour for that mask would work correctly.
In addition, I am not sure you could change a very dark black into a pure white using Capture One. It would involve a very strong exposure change. The best tool to achieve this goal would be, to my mind, a colour substitution in softwares such as Photoshop or Affinity photo.
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Many thanks again, Robert!
I am looking for photo-editing software, which I am going to use for editing my pictures of garments, which my wife sells on Amazon.
Basically, I need to perform just two operations:
1. Color adjustments (Here is an example: a garment has three colors: white, yellow, and gray. I should be able to easily adjust EACH of them) separately, at different degree;
2. Depending on a garment's color, I need to change background either from black to pure white, or from off-white to pure white.
3. Sometimes I need minor retouching (like healing brush in Photoshop).
What FREE software would you recommend for these purposes?
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Affinity Photo, as suggested by Ian in the other thread. Not free, but not expensive at all for a "perpetual" licence (about 60 euros I think).
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